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<div><h1 class="article-title">How do I grade an assignment using the legacy grading interface?</h1></div>
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    <p>This article describes how to grade an assignment using the legacy grading interface. For instructions on grading using the new grader interface, see <a href="content.hlp?docId=howdoigradeanassignment">How do I grade an assignment?</a></p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Go to Assignments.</h2>
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    <p>Select the <strong>Assignments</strong> tool from the Tool Menu in your site.</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Select the assignment to grade.</h2>
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    <p>Click the <strong>Grade</strong> option associated with an<strong> </strong>assignment.</p>
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    <p><em><strong>Note</strong>: If you did not choose a grading scale for the assignment, <strong>View Submissions </strong>will be displayed to you rather than<strong> Grade</strong>. </em></p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Uncheck the box next to Use new Grader to grade submissions.</h2>
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    <p>Uncheck <strong>Use Sakai Grader to grade submissions</strong>, which is activated by default.</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Select a student to grade.</h2>
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    <p>Select a student to grade by clicking on their ID in the <strong>Student</strong> column. </p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">View the student's submission.</h2>
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<li>If available, the student's inline submission displays in the Rich Text Editor. (If there is no inline submission, you will see a message indicating that there is no submitted text.)</li>
<li>If available, the student's submitted file(s) are available in the <strong>Submitted Attachments</strong> area. Click the file(s) to open or download them.</li>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Enter grade.</h2>
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    <p>Enter the score for the student's assignment in the <strong>Grade</strong> field. The maximum available points display to you next to the <strong>Grade</strong> field..</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Or, grade with a rubric</h2>
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    <p>If you've attached a rubric the assignment, click the <strong>Grading Rubric</strong> tab to open the rubric grading area.</p>
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<li>Click one item per rubric criterion.</li>
<li>Optionally enter comments about your selection within each criterion. Click <strong>Done</strong> to save the comments.</li>
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    <p>Using the Rich Text Editor, enter comments in the <strong>Instructor Summary Comments</strong> field.</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Add a feedback attachment. (Optional)</h2>
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    <p>To add a file attachment as part of feedback that will be available to the student, click <strong>Add Attachments</strong> and then attach a file from your device.</p>
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    <p>If you would like to allow the student to resubmit the assignment, check the <strong>Allow Resubmission</strong> box and specify the number of resubmissions allowed and the date until which they will be accepted.</p>
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    <p><em><strong>Note</strong>: If you allowed resubmissions on the assignment when you created it, this information will be prepopulated with the default resubmission information for this assignment. Override the default resubmission settings for an individual student by changing the information in the <strong>Allow Resubmission</strong> area.</em></p>
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<li>Click <strong>Save and Don't Release to Student </strong>to save the grade and feedback. This option does not release the grade to the student.</li>
<li>Or, click <strong>Save and Release to Student</strong> to immediately release the grade and feedback to the student.</li>
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    <p><em><strong>Tip</strong>: Some instructors prefer to release all of the grades and feedback at one time after they have finished entering grades for the entire class. See </em><a href="content.hlp?docId=howdoireleaseassignmentgrades"><em>How do I release assignment grades?</em></a><em><strong> </strong>for more information about releasing all grades and feedback at one time.</em></p>
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    <p>Use the Navigate Submissions area to navigate to other student submissions.</p>
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<li>Click <strong>Next Ungraded</strong> to navigate to the next submission in the sequence with no feedback, or click <strong>Next</strong> to navigate to the next submission in the sequence regardless of feedback.</li>
<li>Click <strong>Previous Ungraded</strong> to navigate to the previous submission in the sequence with no feedback, or click <strong>Previous</strong> to navigate to the previous submission in the sequence regardless of feedback.</li>
<li>Check <strong>Navigate between students with submissions only</strong> to cause navigation to include only students with submissions to this assignment.</li>
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